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Scarcity Is Not an Excuse to Discriminate: Age and Disability in Health Care Rationing

Bill of Health

The Colombian case reinforces that human rights and public health are not mutually exclusive. Importantly, this is reflected in the Principles and Guidelines on Human Rights & Public Health Emergencies (2023). Can age and disability be considered in triage decisions in the face of public health emergencies?

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Reflections on the United States Health Care System and the Right to Health

Bill of Health

To design systems and policies that promote the right to health, a holistic and proactive approach is needed, one in which people, institutions, and corporations have a shared responsibility in promoting physical, mental, and social well-being. health care system. COVID-19 and the U.S. Applying the Principles in the U.S.

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Achieving Economic Security for Disabled People During COVID-19 and Beyond

Bill of Health

During the early months of the pandemic, disabled people became unemployed at disproportionate rates , likely related to substantial employment declines in certain industries, such as retail and hospitality, where disabled people are overrepresented. In other words, legal and policy responses must take a Disability Justice approach.

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GIS + Healthcare is All About Sharing

Healthcare IT Today

By combining datasets from multiple sources and using a geographic area as a common point of reference (ie: a 1 square mile block or the boundaries of a county), public health users are able to gain insights and infer new relationships. In 2005, two Norfolk Southern trains collided in Graniteville South Carolina.

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Long COVID and Physical Reductionism

Bill of Health

Good Samaritan Hospital of Suffern (S.D.N.Y. Emery professor of law and professor of philosophy, and adjunct appointments in Family and Preventive Medicine (in the Division of Public Health), Internal Medicine (in the Division of Medical Ethics), and Political Science, at the University of Utah. Michael Ashley Stein , Ph.D.,

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How the Medical Industry Can Help Combat the Current Coronavirus Crisis

Exeed Regulatory Compliance

Travel is being restricted, large scale public events are likely to be cancelled, and schools and businesses may be closed to contain the spread of the virus. Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has declared a public health emergency. There is now an FDA policy released on 29 Feb.

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How the Dobbs Ruling Will Affect People with Substance Use Disorder

Bill of Health

When Lowe tried to seek treatment for her SUD in 2005, instead of getting medical care, she was forcibly taken away from her husband and son and put on an involuntary psychiatric hold. During her “hospital-incarceration,” she lost access to any prenatal care, and state officials did not monitor the fetus’s health.

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